Chapter 28: Crazy Bandit Purge (Third Update)

  "Also, I have some things I'd like to ask for your help with."

  "Captain Xia, please speak, I'll do my best to accomplish it." Liu Jinshan said with a hint of tension. Captain Xia saw his tense expression and couldn't help but smile: "It's not a difficult task, the team is just in urgent need of talent, so I want to ask for your help in recruiting some people. As long as you recruit them, the captain will pay you according to the number of people."

  "What kind of person is Captain Xia looking for?" Liu Jinshan let out a sigh of relief, seeing that Xia Jun was still willing to pay, and immediately perked up his spirits to ask.

  "Our security team needs all kinds of talents, as long as they are new students and teachers, we also need doctors, engineers..."

  Liu Jinshan's expression was somewhat stunned, "Uh, Captain Xia, these people may not necessarily come!"

  "Don't worry about this, the captain will give them a high treatment, and they won't dare not to come." Xia Jun said, and soon Xia Jun listed out a treatment table.

  He also established a shell university - 'Jianzhou University', all students who transferred to Jianzhou University were not only exempt from tuition fees, but also given a subsidy of 2 silver dollars. Middle school students who came were also exempt from tuition fees and given a monthly subsidy of 1 silver dollar. The school's accommodation and meals were free.

  Simultaneously recruiting university professors, the minimum treatment for those recruited is 30 silver coins per month. If they have skills, they will be given a maximum monthly salary of 500 silver coins.

  Xia Jun This is the naked truth, after the Qing dynasty was forced by the powers to establish new schools at home, all counties and cities set up primary schools, prefectures set up middle schools, and provincial capitals set up universities. It also cultivated some people, as for the quality of education, that's another story.

  Xia Jun's principle is that as long as it can be dug up, and publicity is done well, then it's fine.

  At the same time, Xia Jun also listed the treatment standards for overseas students. Except for Japanese overseas students who were not allowed to go, overseas students going to other countries would receive a monthly allowance of 30-500 silver dollars, depending on their performance.

  Liu Jinshan looked at the list, somewhat excited. Xia Jun promised him that for every overseas student he found, he would give him 50 dollars, a middle school student 2 dollars, and a university student 3 dollars.

  This is secondary, Xia Jun promised him that if he did well, the paper mill would expand in the future and only accept his orders. He also gave him a pack of cigarettes, which was very different from others, not only were they rolled cigarettes, but they also had a filter tip. Liu Jinshan was also an old smoker, took one and started smoking on the spot, the result was that there was no flavor when he smoked it.

  For those who are used to smoking dry tobacco, cigarettes indeed have no flavor, but it's precisely this reason that the market will expand!

  Liu Jinshan nodded repeatedly as soon as he heard it, and Xia Jun continued to reveal vaguely that in the future, Xixiang would also set up a cigarette factory, which needed to buy tobacco from outside...

  It's clear that Xia Jun threw out a tempting bait that moved Liu Jinshan, as a traveling merchant from Huizhou, getting such a stable business was indeed very enticing.

  Xia Jun's list to Liu Jinshan also had reasons for not including Japanese exchange students. Firstly, most Japanese exchange students only stay for about a year or so, and it's likely they haven't even mastered the language yet, let alone learn anything substantial.

  Moreover, among Japanese overseas students, it is likely that there are members of the Tongmenghui mixed in. The Tongmenghui is a group that receives funding from Japan and does things without any bottom line.

  If the Beiyang warlords were still somewhat upright, then the Tongmenghui was extremely despicable. The two wars of protection of the law led China into civil war and served as a vanguard for Japan's invasion of China.

  Later generations sang praises of Sun Yat-sen, but Xia Jun didn't have much feeling for him.

  The outbreak and success of the Xinhai Revolution in overthrowing the Qing government was not led by Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui, whose activities were mainly confined to the southwest region. After several failed uprisings, the Tongmenghui had almost disintegrated, and the Xinhai Revolution had nothing to do with them. On the contrary, it was the Guangfuhui and other groups in the Yangtze River Valley that played a huge role in this revolution.

  However, the Alliance used despicable means and had the support of the Japanese, so it quickly took to the historical stage. The long-term civil war in modern China was led by Sun Yat-sen's Alliance, which bore some responsibility.

  Xia Jun has finalized the cooperation with Liu Jinshan, and now it depends on whether Liu Jinshan has enough capital to purchase the goods from the paper mill. The paper mill operates three shifts a day and can produce 2500 tons of paper per month. The wholesale price for each ton of paper is 23 silver yuan, so a total of 57,500 silver yuan is needed per month.

  As an ordinary paper with such high quality, at such a low price, it must be profitable.

  Looking at Liu Jinshan's appearance, he seems to want to finance or borrow money, and it should be relatively easy for him, after all, as a long-time businessman, he has some connections.

  After discussing the order, the paper mill also entered the stage of full production.

  The paper mill sent people to cut reeds everywhere, and the reeds were abundant everywhere. In addition to sending people to cut them, they also purchased reeds everywhere, paying by weight. Although it was very cheap, the rural areas of this era were not rich, and at the same time, people had more free time.

  More than 200 tons of reeds can be harvested every day, and these reeds are allocated to more than 60 natural villages in Xixiang. Each village has a maximum of four tons, which is not much. Four tons of reeds can't even fill an overloaded tractor. Moreover, reeds have the characteristic of growing on the roadside and having extremely strong vitality.

  In just a month's time, the paper mill quickly entered full operation.

  A month of bandit suppression contributed nearly 300,000 points to Xia Jun. In the six regions, except for Jianyang and Zhenghe areas with the largest activity range, the large groups of bandits in the other four regions were basically eliminated.

  In early April, Xia Jun sent two troops to the northwest of Fujian, Wuyi Mountain and Shaowu, while another two troops were sent to the northeast of Fujian. One troop was specially arranged by Xia Jun to operate near Xianxia Pass, mainly to reconnoiter Xianxia Pass.

  Xianxia Pass is the throat of entering Min, according to Xia Jun's plan, once the Xinhai Revolution breaks out, the first one to be captured will be Xianxia Pass, so that it can be attacked and defended, and the initiative will be in hand.

  This month, 50 well-performing soldiers from the second-line units were promoted to private first class and reassigned back to their bases, assigned to front-line units, issued M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles.

  At the same time, Xia Jun also selected a backbone from these 50 soldiers to form the second batch of external suppression bandit forces. The second batch consisted of three companies with nine platoons, which began to develop southward.

  Xia Jun did not require the bandits to be completely eliminated, but only required the efficiency of eliminating the bandits, because Xia Jun urgently needed to establish a high-yielding crop seed cultivation base. With a high-yielding rice seed cultivation base, it is possible to effectively win people's hearts and solve the problem of food and clothing.

  This crazy mopping up brought a certain pressure to the logistics, and the logistics company basically had delivery tasks every day, driving trucks everywhere. In some places where trucks couldn't get in, they used cargo tricycles to transport goods.

  The reconnaissance of the bandits was also very frequent, and the reconnaissance teams basically carried radios for reconnaissance outside. Wherever there were large groups of bandits, once discovered, they would immediately notify their headquarters, which would then notify the bandit-suppressing troops within their region.

  It's much easier to crack down on bandits these days, because their equipment is very poor. Against the well-equipped security team, even if they occupy a favorable terrain, they will still be defeated by a strong attack.

  The activities of the security teams were naturally understood by local officials, but the officials basically did not ask or care. The security team's suppression of bandits did not shake their collection of silver, and it was also beneficial to local stability, so why not?

  It's useless to ask again! The combat effectiveness of Jianzhou Security Team is far from being matched by local government officials. When the government soldiers see the security team's soldiers, they basically walk around them.

  Xia Jun's bandit-suppressing troops began to spread throughout the province.

  Just like a comb, first sweep away the large and obvious bandits, don't get bogged down if you can't eliminate them completely, shift positions and continue to suppress, once the large groups of bandits in the whole province have been basically eliminated, then make a thorough sweep again.

  In the second month, Xia Jun's points income grew even faster.

  Liu Jinshan then came to Xixiang again, apparently bringing enough silver this time, and bought out nearly 2,000 tons of paper produced in one breath.

  The paper mill earned a profit of 40,000 silver dollars, and this income heralded the security team's stable financial revenue.

  As a result, Xia Jun no longer had to worry about financial problems, and Xixiang began to build large-scale infrastructure projects. 20 small excavators started to widen roads everywhere.

  However, the road to be repaired is not a cement road. Even if steel and cement are exchanged at a relatively cheap price, the demand is too large and there are too many things that need to be exchanged, which is also not cost-effective. Xia Zheng Zheng was holding his breath, preparing to build a high-yielding rice cultivation base this month.

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